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  1. How Much Savings Do You Actually Need to Feel Financially Secure? Start With These 3 Benchmarks
    For many households, the biggest source of money stress isn't low savings. It's uncertainty.
  2. How To Make Your Money Last As Long As You Do In Retirement
    The main goal of investing for retirement is building up enough wealth to cover your living expenses (and pay for fun) for as long as you live. The problem? There is not a single soul on Earth who knows when they’re going to die. You can speculate all you want, but the reality is, you don’t know if you’ll last until 85
  3. How to Save Money for Kids: Here Are Some of the Best Ways
    Raising kids is costly. You'll spend money on food, clothes, education, medical bills, birthday presents, extracurricular activities, and much more.
  4. Three Ways APIs Are Keeping Small Businesses Digitally Competitive
    Small businesses are still bearing the brunt of economic and legislative changes brought on by the pandemic, with over 70% of them reporting negative
  5. Watch Out For These Global Business Risks In 2020
    The Great Depression of the 1920s laid waste to businesses and defined a decade. What do the 2020s have in store? Here’s a quick list of top risks that should be on your radar: Lack of Cyber Resilience Increasing tension between the U. S. and Iran has leaders on alert for cyberattacks by a nation state actor, but that’
  6. What New Grads Should Know About Money
    One of the most common things I often hear from people after one of our financial wellness workshops is how much they wish they had learned about personal finance when they were younger.
  7. Are You Making This Major HSA Mistake?
    If you have a health savings account (HSA), there's a good chance you're not flexing its full financial muscle, since research shows that only 5% of HSA holders are using one of the account's most powerful features. An HSA has three tax benefits: Contributions are made with tax-free money, withdrawals to cover qualifie
  8. 4 Tasks to Check Off Your To-Do List Before Applying for a Mortgage
    Getting the right mortgage loan is important. But to get the perfect loan at the best rate, check these four tasks off your to-do-list before you apply with lenders or commit to taking on debt. 1. Check your credit score Mortgage lenders focus a lot on your credit score when determining if you are well qualified to bor
  9. Here's Why Investing In Frontline Workers Is Good For Your Bottom Line
    Guild Education Cofounder and CEO Rachel Carlson was named to the Forbes Under 30 list in 2017. Most employers know that employee attrition is detrimental to their company’s success. But few know how to improve retention and continue to attract top talent. That’s why many of the nation’s largest companies, from Lowe’s
  10. How a 'Near Zero' Interest Rate Affects Your Money
    The Federal Reserve announced on Sunday that it would cut interest rates to near zero, with the benchmark for consumer interest rates to drop to between 0% and 0.25%.